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| Among people everywhere there is increasing concern about the quality and safety of our food as well as concern about harm to the environment from ill-conceived agricultural activity. Tilth's mission is to promote environmentally sound and sustainable agriculture. We are devoted to learning about and promoting ways in which to raise food, ornamentals, other farm crops and farm animals without damage to the environment. Our group, South Whidbey Tilth, is part of the Washington Tilth Association, which is composed of several regional chapters. In The News ...
Wednesday Farmers Market Opening The South Whidbey Tilth Midweek Farmers’ Market opens June 18 4pm-6pm. This is in addition to our Saturday Market, open 10am-2pm. Come for the first berries of the season! Mr. Mobley’s Food Specialties will be offered from the front of the pavilion, hot and ready to eat or take home. Opportunities to help make the market a success are available before and after both markets. For more information about helping or to vend, contact market manager Elizabeth Case-Smith at market@southwhidbeytilth.org or 360-320-0685.
Aqua Chautauqua July 31 The New Old Time Chautaqua (www.chautaqua.org), on July 31st, will bring the Aqua Chautauqua to Langley for a benefit performance for South Whidbey Tilth, South Whidbey Commons and Island Coffeehouse. The celebration includes a parade, workshops, potluck dinner and performance. See www.islandcoffeehouseandbooks.org/notc.html for more information.
Volunteer Opportunities South Whidbey Tilth has opportunities for you to help with the farmers' market, P-Patch, Native Plant Stewards' plant rescue and forest restoration projects. Work parties are often held on Thursdays and Saturdays at 10AM. Tasks include plant rescue, restoring native plants to Hwy 525 corridor, landscaping, painting, helping getting the farmers' market ready. See recent newsletters below for more information.
Organic Food Gardening Classes and Clinics Our local farmers teach organic food growing.Click here for more information.
Tilth 2008 Annual Meeting South Whidbey Tilth members gathered at 4 p.m. on Saturday, January 12 to review the years progress and to elect a new council members and representatives to Washington Tilth. The council this year is composed of(left to right) John Lee, Ed Hueneke, Marianne Edain, Marc Wilson, Shirley Owen, Gary Ingram and Michael Seraphinoff.
Tilth is THIRTY Thirty years ago, on August 27, 1977, more than 70 people gathered at Pragtree Farm near Arlington, WA, to develop strategies for the sustainable agriculture movement in the Pacific Northwest. Known as the "Regional Planning Meeting," the gathering established the framework for the Tilth Association.
Chrys Ostrander recently posted an article about the meeting in the Tilth Producers' online archive: A New Beginning www.tilthproducers.org/tilthartsASP.asp?id=6 The meeting at Pragtree Farm laid the foundation for organizing local Tilth chapters. The next spring the first chapters were formed in Seattle and in Southwest Washington, followed by Willamette Valley Tilth and Rogue Tilth in Oregon. By the summer of 1982 there were 15 Tilth chapters in California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, with an estimated combined membership of 2,000. At the Regional Planning Meeting three years later Anthony Judge's ideas were incorporated into Tilth's strategy of organizing autonomous local chapters empowered to respond to the needs of their communities. Over the past three decades the Tilth movement has ebbed and flowed, with the central organization dissolving into statewide organizations in Oregon and Washington, and local chapters forming and fading away. Because of its decentralized, ecological strategy, however, Tilth has continued to adapt, survive, and thrive. Today Tilth is experiencing a resurgence parallel to the growth of the organic food and farming nationwide.
See our chapters at: Oregon Tilth www.tilth.org Seattle Tilth www.seattletilth.org Sno-Valley Tilth www.snovalleytilth.org Spokane Tilth www.thefutureisorganic.net/spotilth.htm Tilth Producers of Washington www.tilthproducers.org Vashon Island Growers Association www.vigavashon.org
Online newsletters Current newsletter The Newsletter for June 2008 has articles on: Wednesday Market Opens June 18 p1, Veggie Vouchers p2, Gardening Clinics p2, Native Plant Stewards Notes p3, Tilth Pea Patch p3, The President's Corner p4, Good Food Premiers at SIFF p5, Opportunites at Tilth p6, AND MORE!
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